Vaillal Peregrin

Though Vaillal has two other forms-- she can shape shift into a human, looking like a mortal woman in nearly every way, or a lion, as pure white and blue-eyed as her natural coloring-- she's much more often seen in her human form than her lion form. She doesn't like the teeth-and-claws aspect, really, and if she wanted to be smaller and four-footed, she can just size-shift! Besides, she really does look rather tubby in lion form, and it's a bit embarrassing. As a human, she's also a bit chubby, but it's easier to hide with clothing, and looks a bit more natural, anyway: fat lions aren't exactly cute, but slightly round women can pull it off. She has short, curly, pure white hair and a heart-shaped face, and loves warm colors: browns, red, golds, and oranges. 

It is something of a family joke, particularly among the "true" Peregrins, that Vaillal is a bit silly. She smiles, she giggles, she organizes parties, she doesn't quite get the more complicated conversations that battle-hardened veterans get into about this tactic or that move, and she gets nervous when talk turns to infernals and eradicating evil. Her children in particular are rather free with the word, though usually in an affectionate manner. It may even be true, in some ways: if being social, happy to organize social events for people, and afraid of dying in the field make her silly, then perhaps she is. Once she might have agreed with them, when she was younger, but now she prefers to think of herself as simply a different kind of supernal. After all, someone has to work behind the scenes to keep things running and keep people happy when they're not busy fighting evil, don't they? 

It was in this position, serving as assistant to the current Housing Coordinator, that Vaillal truly blossomed. When he went into retirement-- he was several millennia old by that point, and very much in need of a vacation-- she took over happily, and has been working in it since. She met her late mate, Tashel, the same way she meets most people for the first time in the City: she showed him his new house. Already well over fifty, she had given up on finding a partner among the rest of the active Favored, but young Tashel-- he was only just moved up to full Favored status at the time-- was enchanted and, after a couple years of courtship between his own stints in the field, finally managed to convince her that yes, he did love her and yes, he did want to marry her. 

Tashel's acceptance was the last nail in the coffin of her self-doubt that her useful and enjoyable job had started building, and even though she only had him for a little over a century, she still calls him the best thing that had ever happened to her. She still misses him, and at times doesn't know what to do with herself without him around, but by now she has enough friends that she can keep herself busy if she needs to. Keeping track of her scattered children fills up the rest of her free time, sometimes to their annoyance. 

Because she is pure white in color, making her as a rare Favored of the High One, Vaillal has a specific ability granted only to Favored Supernal, called purity, which creates a wave of holy power which can purify a spherical area around her, up to half a mile in radius. Evil caught within the sphere of power are either purified or destroyed. Vaillal is really very out of practice with her purification, and was never all that good with it, to begin with: she is a terrible fighter. However, a side effect of this ability is that, whenever she has holy power gathered around her, no matter how low the level, she has a heightened awareness of good and evil, particularly in people. This, she is much better at using, and it isn't unusual to see her glowing faintly just because she feels like it. 

Vaillal's Story

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